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Social Media Marketing Strategies...

Welcome to social media marketing from around the Web. The links here focus on building business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships. The Social Media Conundrum holds various links and videos for your perusal, enjoyment and learning. Stop jumping on social media bandwagons.

Read, listen, think – have you chosen the right social platform for your business? Is your social media marketing strategy sound? Learn from the professionals, as curated by Level343. To find out more about our services

9 social media marketing rules you should break iMedia Connection Social media has had a tremendous impact on our culture over the years. Back when I first dipped my toe into social media, that world was dominated by kids and computer geeks.

It's been reported that as of 2015, roughly 73% of all Americans have at least one social media profile - up from 48% just five years ago. Keeping up with this massive movement to social media has long been a business concern.

Actually, you probably will. Here we are, a good ten years or more into the social media era, and apparently we still can't figure out whether social media advertising actually accomplishes anything, and if so, what.

Check 27 Different Google Penalties that Could be Hurting your Website. The Big List of Google Penalties for SEO

Level343's insight:

Violating Google’s Webmaster guidelines will result in penalties that reduce your website’s rankings or completely remove it. To avoid spending time in the Google penalty box, steer clear of the following penalties.

Violating Google’s Webmaster guidelines will result in penalties that reduce your website’s rankings or completely remove it. To avoid spending time in the Google penalty box, steer clear of the following penalties.

according to the survey and research we developed with a client, Twitter was ranked slightly more valuable than LinkedIn when it came to sales prospecting. This is a follow up to a sales survey I wrote about on Forbes with Jim Keenan in 2013.

In advance of her session at ClickZ Live Toronto, Chief Marketing Officer of shopbake.com, Anastassia Boguslavskaya chats to us about how marketers should look beyond the social media giants to engage customers.

Do your buns look good on Instagram? Chili’s Restaurants’ has made sure that theirs do, by launching a multi-million dollar food-appearance overhaul that demonstrates that Chili’s’ understands an important element of the customer experience in our...

Level343's insight:

No matter how good these images look, why don't they EVER look like that in the restaurant? Just saying...

I have looked recently at how some of the top 100 and the top 500 of corporate America are using Social Media, so this study by business.com is valuable as it takes a close look at the use of social media by small business (those with less than...

A side-by-side feature comparison of the seven major social video players -- YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat and Tumblr. The post Social Video Chart: Your At-A-Glance Guide To 7 Major Platforms appeared first on Marketing Land.

Cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV increased significantly from 2013 to 2014.

Level343's insight:

In 2012, a syphilis outbreak in New Zealand was linked to the app Grindr. It and similar apps have been blamed for spikes in gonorrhea and syphilis in the United Kingdom. "Thanks to Grindr or Tinder, you can acquire chlamydia in five minutes," Peter Greenhouse, of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, told the Daily Mail in January

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Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy.